Important! The AMD Mobility Radeon Driver Verification tool helps you
determine your notebook’s compatibility with generic AMD Catalyst Mobility
drivers. It helps to prevent incorrect installation on incompatible notebooks
which may lead to disabled features or functionality.

If you experience difficulty while using the generic AMD Catalyst Mobility
drivers, we recommend reverting to the driver provided by your notebook vendor.
Please contact your notebook vendor for their most recent graphics drivers.

The following notebooks are not compatible with this tool:

Notebooks equipped with switchable graphics

Toshiba® notebooks

Sony® VAIO® notebooks

Panasonic® notebooks

The AMD Catalyst software suite 12.6 contains the following:

AMD display driver version 8.98

HydraVision™ for Windows Vista® and Windows® 7

Southbridge/IXP Driver

AMD Catalyst Control Center version 8.98/AMD Vision Engine Control
Center version 8.98.

Caution! The AMD Catalyst Control Center/AMD Vision Engine Control
Center requires that the Microsoft® .NET Framework SP1 be installed for Windows
XP and Windows Vista. Without .NET SP1 installed, the AMD Catalyst Control
Center/AMD Vision Engine Control Center will not launch properly and the user
will see an error message.

Note:

When installing the AMD Catalyst driver for Windows operating system,
the user must be logged on as Administrator or have Administrator rights to
complete the installation of the AMD Catalyst driver.

The Catalyst driver requires Windows 7 Service Pack 1 to be installed.

AMD Eyefinity technology is designed to give gamers access to high
display resolutions. As pixel count grows, the graphics “horsepower”
required to drive the displays at a reasonable frame rate can increase
dramatically. Depending on the game and system configuration, users may
notice texture corruption and reduced frame rates when running games in
multi-monitor Eyefinity modes.

Windows Driver Model (WDM) drivers are no longer bundled in the AMD
Catalyst software suite. The WDM drivers install bundle can be downloaded
independently through the AMD website.

AMD Product Compatibility

The AMD Catalyst driver is compatible with the following AMD products.

AMD Desktop Product Family Compatibility

AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 Series

ATI Radeon HD 5600 Series

AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series

ATI Radeon HD 5500 Series

AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series

ATI Radeon HD 5400 Series

AMD Radeon HD 7300 Series

ATI Radeon HD 4890 Series

AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 Series

AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series

ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 Series

AMD Radeon HD 6700 Series

ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series

AMD Radeon HD 6600 Series

ATI Radeon HD 4700 Series

AMD Radeon HD 6550D Series

ATI Radeon HD 4670 Series

AMD Radeon HD 6530D Series

ATI Radeon HD 4650 Series

AMD Radeon HD 6500 Series

ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series

AMD Radeon HD 6410D Series

ATI Radeon HD 4550 Series

AMD Radeon HD 6370D Series

ATI Radeon HD 4350 Series

AMD Radeon HD 6310D Series

ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series

AMD Radeon HD 6300 Series

ATI Radeon HD 3600 Series

AMD Radeon HD 6200 Series

ATI Radeon HD 3400 Series

ATI Radeon HD 5900 Series

ATI Radeon HD 2900 Series

ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series

ATI Radeon HD 2600 Series

ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series

ATI Radeon HD 2400 Series

AMD FireStream™ Product Families

AMD FireStream™ 9350

AMD FireStream 9250

AMD FireStream 9270

AMD FireStream 9170

AMD Chipset Product Families

ATI Radeon™ HD 4290

ATI Radeon 3200 Series

ATI Radeon HD 4250

ATI Radeon 3100 Series

ATI Radeon HD 4200 Series

ATI Radeon 3000 Series

ATI Radeon HD 3300 Series

AMD Mobility Radeon™ Family Compatibility

AMD Catalyst Mobility is a notebook reference graphics driver with
limited support forsystem vendor specific features. When used with
Windows Vista or Windows 7, the user experience may be limited or
compromised.

The Installation Verification Software is designed to prevent driver
download on certain notebook products. This is to protect against the
installing of drivers that may disable features or functionality
provided by the system manufacturer.When used with Windows Vista or
Windows 7, the user experience may be limited or compromised. In such a
situation, it is recommended to revert back to the driver provided by
your systemvendor for your specific platform. Please contact your system
vendor for the most recentdrivers for your notebook.

AMD Mobility Product Families

AMD Mobility Radeon™ HD 6900M Series

AMD Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series

AMD Mobility RadeonHD 6800M Series

AMD Mobility Radeon HD 4100 Series

AMD Mobility Radeon HD 6300M Series

AMD Mobility Radeon HD 3800 Series

AMD Mobility Radeon HD 6300 Series

AMD Mobility Radeon HD 3600 Series

AMD Mobility Radeon HD 6200 Series

AMD Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series

AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5800 Series

AMD Mobility Radeon HD 3200 Series

AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5700 Series

AMD Mobility Radeon HD 3100 Series

AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5600 Series

AMD Mobility Radeon HD 2700 Series

AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5400 Series

AMD Mobility Radeon HD 2600 Series

AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5100 Series

AMD Mobility Radeon HD 2400 Series

AMD Mobility Radeon HD 4800 Series

AMD PowerXpress™ enabled notebooks

AMD Mobility Radeon HD 4600 Series using AMD chipsets

AMD Mobility Radeon HD 4500 Series

The following notebooks are not compatible with this release:

Any notebook launched after this driver release

Switchable Graphics enabled notebooks

Toshiba notebooks (please contact the notebook OEM for driver
support for these notebooks)

Sony VAIO notebooks (please contact the notebook OEM for driver
support for these notebooks

Panasonic notebooks (please contact the notebook OEM for driver
support for these notebooks)

Compatible Operating Systems

The latest version of the AMD Catalyst software suite is designed to support
the following Microsoft®Windows® platforms:

This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of
the AMD Catalyst12.6 software suite for Windows 7. These include:

CERT recently approached AMD with information pertaining to what they
believed to be a possible video driver vulnerability exposed by non-default
settings of the Microsoft Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET).
EMET is a security test tool that allows system administrators to create
test conditions to validate correct behavior of system components or
indicate potential weak points.

The AMD Catalyst 12.6 driver for the AMD Radeon HD 7000, AMD Radeon
HD 6000, and AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series is designed to resolve a possible
video driver vulnerability issue and to minimize the occurrence of
system crashes.

AMD Catalyst 12.6 includes some additional fixes(not found in the AMD
Catalyst 12.6 Beta) for the AMD Radeon™ HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD
Radeon HD 7700 graphics cards for issues related to the GPU hanging when the
system goes to sleep. Please ensure that your System BIOS is up to date.
Some occurrences of this issue may be related to an outdated System BIOS.
Heroes and Generals - Blocky corruption in scenes with smoke effects when
run in DirectX 11 mode.